Vernon received the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1985,
the ACM Fellow award in 1995
for "fundamental contributions to performance analysis of parallel computer
architectures and for leadership in the computing research community",
a UW-Madison Vilas Associate award in 2000, and the UW-Madison
Kellett Midcareer Award in 2006. She is a co-inventor on
two U.S. patents for bus arbitration protocols, and on four U.S. patents
for streaming media delivery protocols. She has co-authored over
80 technical papers, including seven award papers
(most recent: Sigcomm 2001, Infocom 2004, 2005 USENIX Security
Symposium). She has served on the editorial boards of
the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
and the IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering,
the 1993 NSF Blue Ribbon Panel for High Performance Computing,
the NSF CISE Advisory Board, the CRA Board of Directors,
on external review committees for various engineering colleges
and computer science departments, and as Chair of the ACM SIGMETRICS.